Born in Taiwan and raised in Virginia, Yvonne received a B.A. in Music from Yale University. Her works have been performed in the US, Canada, Taiwan, and Germany and have been premiered by The Timothy Dwight Chamber Players, ARRAYMUSIC, and Ensemble SurPlus. She was a prize winner in the 2004 Formosa Composition Competition and was awarded the Abraham Beekman Cox Prize as an outstanding composer in her class at Yale. Her string quartet Utterance was recently released on Carrier Records. Primary composition teachers have included Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Sophia Serghi, and Steven Takasugi. She is currently a graduate student in music composition at the University of California, San Diego.